Critical Reconstruction and Its Narratives: What Moscow’s Early 90s Reconstruction Projects Tell Us About Authoritarian Power, Space, and Society

• In Event: Post-Communist Economic, Social, and Political Transformations

Brief Overview

Moscow’s “critical reconstruction projects” in 1993-1999 are mobilized as a unit of analysis for understanding budding authoritarian power through the prism of authoritarian neoliberal practices and the Lefebvrian trialectics of space.

Author

• Elena Borzenkova, University of Illinois at Chicago